Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

citizen_p · 14-08-2011 2:29pm

Not pultizer but these are also good...

World Press Photo Archive

some galleries

one of irish interest, this won third place, 12 pictures of travellers in clare

Rubik. · 14-08-2011 6:22pm

ibarelycare wrote: »

They don't all match up

There are two photography prizes awarded each year - Spot News Photography & Feature Photography. The list on Pulitzer Prize website is of the Feature Photography winners, but the photographs on the other link is a mixture of both.

The Spot News list...

http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Spot-News-Photography

crazygeryy · 17-08-2011 9:59pm

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Dear God is the whole world gone fricken nuts!?!?!?!

i just looked through this whole thread.all of it.

the world IS ****ing nuts.

BigDuffman · 18-08-2011 9:58am

Those pulitzer photographs are amazing and frustrating! As I was trying to match the back story against the photo's listed year but they appear to be out of sync

fontanalis · 23-08-2011 5:52pm

Amazing how a puppet can convey so much emotion.

irish_stevo815 · 23-08-2011 10:13pm

Sorry is some of these have been posted already! These are some pics that came to mind when reading through this thread:

Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963. (Was used as the album cover for Rage Against the machine's debut album.)
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Mike Tyson bites off Evander Holyfields ear.

Miss Monroe's iconic pose

US Troops land at Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6 1944

Teddy_Picker · 23-08-2011 10:16pm

Rebels deface an image of the dictator

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Rebels charge through Tripoli

And an interesting one, taken at the 2010 Arab African summit:
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(Front row L-R) Tunisia's Ben Ali, Yemen's Saleh, Libya's Gaddafi and Egypt's Mubarak. One year on...

g'em · 25-08-2011 1:53pm

The picture shows Petty Officer 1st Class Jon Tumilson's loyal dog Hawkeye lying by the soldier’s casket where he refused to leave. Tumilson (35) was one of the 30 American special operation troops killed earlier this month when a helicopter was downed in Afghanistan. The photo was taken by Tumilson’s cousin, Lisa Pembleton, who wrote on Twitter that she “felt compelled to take one photo to share with family members that couldn’t make it or couldn’t see what I could from the aisle.”

Source

Big Nasty · 25-08-2011 2:04pm

Teddy_Picker wrote: »

Say what you like about Gadaffi - he's one hip dude! :pac:

CMpunked · 27-08-2011 12:53am

A day after his resignation as apple CEO, this picture is evident as to why exactly:

Eoin · 27-08-2011 1:02am

The dress looks a bit photoshopped though. Also, it's a dress.

Grimebox · 27-08-2011 1:30pm

Eoin wrote: »

The dress looks a bit photoshopped though. Also, it's a dress.

His neck is jagged on the left. The veins dont line up. Complete fake

xxtattyberxx · 28-08-2011 8:06pm

later12 · 29-08-2011 5:57am

Grimebox wrote: »

His neck is jagged on the left. The veins dont line up. Complete fake

I don't think so. Nobody seriously respects the daily mail but I don't think they'd go as far as publishing a photoshop.

Also apparently he's wearing shorts and a tee shirt, you just can't see it clearly because of the colours

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031100/Gaunt-frail-cancer-battle-takes-toll-Steve-Jobs-picture-left-Apple.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Reuters reported this too

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/apple-idUSN1E77P1XZ20110826

January · 29-08-2011 9:49am

I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that the photograph is real... apparently Steve Jobs hadn't been out in public for two months prior to that photograph, a lot can happen with cancer in two months.

Grimebox · 29-08-2011 10:27am

later10 wrote: »

I don't think so. Nobody seriously respects the daily mail but I don't think they'd go as far as publishing a photoshop.

Also apparently he's wearing shorts and a tee shirt, you just can't see it clearly because of the colours

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031100/Gaunt-frail-cancer-battle-takes-toll-Steve-Jobs-picture-left-Apple.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Reuters reported this too

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/apple-idUSN1E77P1XZ20110826

Well it appeared first on TMZ so you can understand my scepticism.

After a bit of googling, the internet seems to agree that its probably real

Sykk · 29-08-2011 5:29pm

A Libyan man walks among what remains of 53 fellow Libyans. Executed and burned to death by Gaddafi Loyalists.

MoyVilla9 · 29-08-2011 6:45pm

Let's take this back a few years.

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This picture, taken by George Strock on Buna Beach in Papua New Guinea in 1943, is now considered a "war classic" and was printed by LIFE Magazine to do exactly what this thread is about: Shock. The Roosevelt government was convinced that Americans had grown too complacent about the war.

Ditch · 01-09-2011 12:57am

Blandpebbles wrote: »

Have you notice how much this photo looks like one of the Passion Paintings in the Cisteen Chapel

I reckon that copper's saying; " Fuck off, Jesus! "

kev9100 · 03-09-2011 9:08pm

5 New Yorkers sit talking while their city is under attack behind them.

fulhamfanincork · 03-09-2011 10:42pm

that's a fake if I ever saw one

kev9100 · 03-09-2011 11:20pm

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

that's a fake if I ever saw one

Nope, here's an article about it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/02/911-photo-thomas-hoepker-meaning

Loveless · 03-09-2011 11:26pm

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

that's a fake if I ever saw one

apparently it's real (surprised me too)
http://friendfeed.com/winckel/88ee387f/meaning-of-9-11-most-controversial-photo

Bondvillain · 03-09-2011 11:28pm

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

that's a fake if I ever saw one

The colour is a bit wonky in the guardian photo, but Its real, and it's been knocking about for a few years on the net.

http://www.slate.com/id/2149675/

fulhamfanincork · 03-09-2011 11:45pm

My apologies, it does look like it was made up on photoshop or something.

It's a striking but also hideous photo in my opinion.

Ditch · 04-09-2011 2:44am

My Lai, Viet Nam. March 16th, 1968

The image of the little girl on the left there will stay with me till the day I die.

Taken seconds before these innocent women and children were shot to pieces by American troops with automatic weapons.

Now we see self made images of them chucking puppies off cliffs and posing to give the 'Thumbs Up' with children they've just killed in Iraq.

Anyone else spot a pattern here ....?

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 04-09-2011 3:04am

^^Can you give some context or proof please

markesmith · 04-09-2011 9:17am

Scarlette Sticky Skit wrote: »

^^Can you give some context or proof please

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

The Boys from County Hell by the Pogues

Ditch · 04-09-2011 3:05pm

Scarlette Sticky Skit wrote: »

^^Can you give some context or proof please

Sure. For My Lai, Google is your friend. Read till ye eyes hurt. There's reams of it. All very thoroughly documented, with names and faces of the guys behind the M16's.

Puppy chuckers were probably long since ripped down from You Tube. Though, I expect it's still around on one of the 'gore' type sites.

Not sure what one might need to feed Google to get the references to it. But, it too will be there and well documented.

The idiot giving the thumbs up over the body of the young lad? Why, that was alluded to, twice, on this very thread. Also plenty about it on Google. Names named. The lot. Help yeself

BeardyFunzo · 05-09-2011 1:29am

In response to the photo of the new yorkers 'casually' watching their city burn:

20 years ago my father died and when my sister returned to school about two weeks later two of her classmates came up to her and said:

'You must be glad your daddy died because you aren't crying'. This devastated my sister.

So if you think the people in that photo are arses, think to yourself- did you ever smile at a funeral? Did you crack a joke with a friend on the day those attacks happened?

Context is a wonderful thing, as well as being a s***ty thing to be taken out of.

Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

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